Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 65 78
Rank change year-on-year -30 +13 -22
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,894 1,966 3,125
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 4.01% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 4.44% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,395 985 2,282
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,639 44,292 83,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.85% 90.34% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50,181 24,710 58,516
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,777 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -30 1,675 £75,000 +3.45% 484
UK excluding London -60 992 £65,000 -7.14% 327
Work from Home -21 859 £65,000 -7.14% 267
London -10 753 £85,000 +3.03% 236
North of England -41 361 £69,310 -3.72% 96
South East -7 265 £65,000 -7.14% 106
North West -51 197 £75,000 +7.14% 53
South West -49 110 £56,250 -21.87% 37
Midlands -69 96 £65,000 -3.70% 44
North East +20 83 £65,000 +18.18% 17
Yorkshire -19 81 £63,750 -12.07% 26
West Midlands -33 69 £77,500 +10.71% 30
East of England -16 49 £60,100 -3.84% 11
Wales -14 48 £70,000 +34.62% 13
Northern Ireland -32 33 £62,500 +25.00% 10
Scotland -65 32 £60,000 -22.58% 13
East Midlands -66 26 £64,000 +0.39% 14
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 34 (1.80%) Confluence
2 25 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 17 (0.90%) CMS
3 17 (0.90%) IIS
4 16 (0.84%) Apache
5 9 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.48%) JBoss
6 8 (0.42%) Camunda
6 8 (0.42%) WordPress
7 7 (0.37%) nginx
7 7 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.26%) Drupal
9 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.16%) DNN
10 3 (0.16%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.16%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.16%) Kentico
Applications
1 13 (0.69%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.32%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.11%) Shopify
7 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (52.85%) AWS
2 828 (43.72%) Azure
3 342 (18.06%) GCP
4 272 (14.36%) Serverless
5 227 (11.99%) GitHub
6 184 (9.71%) SaaS
7 163 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
9 116 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
10 109 (5.76%) Amazon S3
11 102 (5.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 94 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
13 89 (4.70%) Azure Service Bus
14 78 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (3.43%) Azure AKS
17 62 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
18 59 (3.12%) Amazon SQS
19 51 (2.69%) PaaS
20 48 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.38%) Broadband
2 24 (1.27%) Network Security
3 14 (0.74%) MQTT
4 13 (0.69%) DMARC
5 11 (0.58%) DNS
6 9 (0.48%) AMQP
7 8 (0.42%) Firewall
7 8 (0.42%) Internet
7 8 (0.42%) VPN
8 7 (0.37%) DHCP
8 7 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.32%) HTTP
9 6 (0.32%) RFID
9 6 (0.32%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.26%) LTE
11 3 (0.16%) Modbus
12 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.11%) SNMP
12 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (15.84%) MongoDB
2 214 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
3 202 (10.67%) NoSQL
4 165 (8.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 159 (8.39%) Elasticsearch
6 122 (6.44%) MySQL
7 97 (5.12%) SQL Server
8 86 (4.54%) Relational Database
9 59 (3.12%) Redis
10 53 (2.80%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.69%) Big Data
13 23 (1.21%) RDBMS
14 21 (1.11%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.63%) Db2
15 12 (0.63%) DTS
15 12 (0.63%) Pinecone
16 10 (0.53%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
17 9 (0.48%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 225 (11.88%) Git
2 180 (9.50%) GitLab
3 153 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.17%) TeamCity
5 57 (3.01%) JIRA
6 52 (2.75%) JUnit
7 43 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.69%) Claude Code
9 31 (1.64%) Mockito
10 30 (1.58%) Cypress.io
11 27 (1.43%) CircleCI
11 27 (1.43%) Maven
12 21 (1.11%) Selenium
13 18 (0.95%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 15 (0.79%) JMeter
15 15 (0.79%) Vite
16 13 (0.69%) Postman
16 13 (0.69%) REST Assured
17 11 (0.58%) Spock
General
1 463 (24.45%) Finance
2 331 (17.48%) Social Skills
3 187 (9.87%) Public Sector
4 161 (8.50%) Banking
5 120 (6.34%) Law
6 116 (6.12%) Retail
7 106 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 97 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
9 57 (3.01%) Financial Institution
10 51 (2.69%) Back Office
11 44 (2.32%) Legal
12 31 (1.64%) Marketing
13 30 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.48%) Legal Technology
15 24 (1.27%) Aerospace
16 23 (1.21%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.00%) Advertising
18 18 (0.95%) Games
19 16 (0.84%) Billing
20 13 (0.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 696 (36.75%) Developer
2 440 (23.23%) Senior
3 358 (18.90%) Software Engineer
4 282 (14.89%) Lead
5 260 (13.73%) Architect
6 201 (10.61%) .NET Developer
7 147 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 147 (7.76%) Java Developer
8 146 (7.71%) Senior Developer
9 129 (6.81%) Java Engineer
10 115 (6.07%) Senior Software Engineer
11 107 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
12 102 (5.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 93 (4.91%) Principal Engineer
14 79 (4.17%) Software Developer
15 71 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
16 68 (3.59%) Lead Developer
17 56 (2.96%) Lead Software Engineer
18 53 (2.80%) Technical Leader
19 51 (2.69%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 503 (26.56%) .NET
2 418 (22.07%) Node.js
3 416 (21.96%) React
4 313 (16.53%) Spring
5 293 (15.47%) Spring Boot
6 274 (14.47%) RESTful
7 250 (13.20%) REST
8 227 (11.99%) ASP.NET
9 225 (11.88%) Kafka
10 216 (11.40%) .NET Core
11 202 (10.67%) AngularJS
12 194 (10.24%) Vue
13 187 (9.87%) ASP.NET Core
14 109 (5.76%) ASP.NET Web API
15 103 (5.44%) Blazor
16 102 (5.39%) .NET Framework
17 91 (4.80%) HTML
18 85 (4.49%) CSS
19 82 (4.33%) gRPC
20 72 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 580 (30.62%) Cloud Native
2 321 (16.95%) Distributed Systems
3 133 (7.02%) Product Ownership
4 95 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
5 81 (4.28%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
7 49 (2.59%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.43%) Video\Live Streaming
9 45 (2.38%) Over-the-Top Content
10 39 (2.06%) Public Cloud
11 36 (1.90%) AI Agents
12 28 (1.48%) e-Learning
13 27 (1.43%) Algorithms
14 26 (1.37%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
15 25 (1.32%) Virtual Team
16 24 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
16 24 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
17 21 (1.11%) Mobile App
18 18 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 116 (6.12%) Linux
2 47 (2.48%) Windows
3 20 (1.06%) Unix
4 18 (0.95%) CentOS
4 18 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.32%) Debian
5 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.21%) AIX
7 3 (0.16%) Android
7 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 974 (51.43%) CI/CD
2 879 (46.41%) Agile
3 686 (36.22%) Software Engineering
4 680 (35.90%) DevOps
5 541 (28.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 433 (22.86%) Containerisation
7 432 (22.81%) Mentoring
8 396 (20.91%) Test Automation
9 390 (20.59%) Event-Driven
10 380 (20.06%) AI
11 368 (19.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 363 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 324 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
14 272 (14.36%) Scrum
15 247 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
16 241 (12.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 237 (12.51%) TDD
18 212 (11.19%) Clean Code
19 208 (10.98%) Coaching
20 200 (10.56%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 623 (32.89%) Java
2 504 (26.61%) C#
3 479 (25.29%) SQL
4 461 (24.34%) Python
5 433 (22.86%) JavaScript
6 356 (18.80%) TypeScript
7 121 (6.39%) Go
8 52 (2.75%) Scala
9 44 (2.32%) Ruby
10 43 (2.27%) C++
10 43 (2.27%) PHP
11 40 (2.11%) Bash
12 27 (1.43%) Bicep
12 27 (1.43%) PowerShell
13 25 (1.32%) Rust
14 23 (1.21%) C
15 14 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.69%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.63%) Groovy
18 11 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 248 (13.09%) Security Cleared
2 174 (9.19%) Degree
3 165 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 78 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (3.43%) AWS Certification
6 56 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.21%) CISSP
9 20 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 20 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
11 12 (0.63%) DBS Check
12 9 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.48%) PhD
13 8 (0.42%) CISM
14 7 (0.37%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.37%) MBA
15 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.26%) GIAC
16 5 (0.26%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (8.55%) QA
2 67 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 42 (2.22%) GDPR
4 39 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.48%) WCAG
6 24 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.21%) SOC 2
8 22 (1.16%) NIST
9 18 (0.95%) NCSC
10 15 (0.79%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.32%) Data Quality
14 6 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.26%) SEPA
16 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.21%) PSD2
17 3 (0.16%) IFRS
System Software
1 552 (29.14%) Docker
2 22 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.21%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 590 (31.15%) Kubernetes
2 357 (18.85%) Terraform
3 110 (5.81%) Ansible
4 102 (5.39%) Grafana
5 60 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.37%) Argo
7 19 (1.00%) Puppet
8 18 (0.95%) Kibana
9 13 (0.69%) Cilium
10 12 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.42%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.21%) Packer
13 4 (0.21%) Podman
14 3 (0.16%) Rancher
15 2 (0.11%) Istio
15 2 (0.11%) MIIS
15 2 (0.11%) Nagios
15 2 (0.11%) Opsgenie
16 1 (0.053%) logstash
Vendors
1 300 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 82 (4.33%) Google
3 58 (3.06%) Oracle
4 45 (2.38%) Typelevel
5 37 (1.95%) OpenAI
6 28 (1.48%) Splunk
7 26 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 20 (1.06%) IBM
9 19 (1.00%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.90%) Databricks
11 14 (0.74%) Red Hat
12 13 (0.69%) Adobe
12 13 (0.69%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.63%) OneLogin
14 11 (0.58%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.58%) SAP
15 10 (0.53%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.42%) Cisco
16 8 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
17 7 (0.37%) HubSpot